Applevariety
Taunton Cross
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1919; sweet, tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain medium-coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.00 mmHeight 48.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Taunton Cross began
Recorded origin
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Taunton Cross’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Taunton Cross
Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Wealthy → Taunton CrossParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 64.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 48.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Wealthy x Unknown
- coarseness
- medium-coarse
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.